This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/mst: Fix error handling during MST sideband message reception to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-mst-fix-error-handling-during-mst-sideband-message-reception.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 448421b5e93b9177c5698f0cf6f5e72d2995eeca Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 14:43:28 +0300 Subject: drm/mst: Fix error handling during MST sideband message reception From: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx> commit 448421b5e93b9177c5698f0cf6f5e72d2995eeca upstream. Handle any error due to partial reads, timeouts etc. to avoid parsing uninitialized data subsequently. Also bail out if the parsing itself fails. Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lyude <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Lyude <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170719114330.26540-2-imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_dp_mst_topology.c @@ -2195,11 +2195,17 @@ static void drm_dp_get_one_sb_msg(struct ret = drm_dp_dpcd_read(mgr->aux, basereg + curreply, replyblock, len); if (ret != len) { - DRM_DEBUG_KMS("failed to read a chunk\n"); + DRM_DEBUG_KMS("failed to read a chunk (len %d, ret %d)\n", + len, ret); + return; } + ret = drm_dp_sideband_msg_build(msg, replyblock, len, false); - if (ret == false) + if (!ret) { DRM_DEBUG_KMS("failed to build sideband msg\n"); + return; + } + curreply += len; replylen -= len; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from imre.deak@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/drm-mst-avoid-dereferencing-a-null-mstb-in-drm_dp_mst_handle_up_req.patch queue-4.4/drm-mst-avoid-processing-partially-received-up-down-message-transactions.patch queue-4.4/drm-mst-fix-error-handling-during-mst-sideband-message-reception.patch